Today's morning dynasty is not a big court meeting, so it ended quickly, and after the dynasty was dispersed, Liu Muzhi and Xu Minglang returned to Zhongshu Province one after another. Now it is the middle of winter, the New Year is approaching, there are a lot of things in Zhongshu Province, and there is no room for idle delay.

The imperial court's annual year-end inventory of state affairs began in October, with tax collection, measurement of acres, performance evaluation of officials, and financial budgets of various yamen for the coming year.

At this time, when the ministers in charge of the three provinces and six ministries wave the whip of power in their hands, they will be related to the fate and future of countless people, some people will embark on the road of green clouds, and some people will fall into the abyss. As the deputy prime minister, Liu Muzhi's power whip is so great that he will receive countless filial piety and flattery at this time of year.

The so-called power, in the final analysis, is the power to influence the fate of others. This is also the most powerful force in the world. Words are followed, and it can be said that Liu Muzhi is the real big man of the empire.

As far as Liu Muzhi is concerned, if this power is used well, countless people under his wings will benefit, and his family will become stronger year by year, while the power of political enemies will continue to be suppressed and weakened until he is stepped into the abyss.

Everything is complicated, and he is often busy all night, but Liu Muzhi enjoys it - who doesn't enjoy the thrill of deciding the fate of others?

"After this year, after the Shangyuan Festival, the imperial court will open the seal, which is the time to propose the Privy Council in the court! Liu Muzhi looked at the list of officials in his hand, and there was a smile in his eyes.

These are the elites in the clan who he selected to enter the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. With a huge yamen, of course, civil officials will not only need the position of two metropolitan governors, and without the corresponding complete civil official team to support them, the metropolitan governors will only be an empty shelf. And he quarreled for a long time with Xu Minglang and many family heads for a long time in order to have one or two more names on this list.

The end of the year is naturally not the time to propose and start a major event, the time from the end of the year seal of the imperial court to the opening of the seal after the year is not short, and the blank period of more than half a month, not to mention the delay, is also easy to cause branches, so all the major military policies are made in the spring. At present, everyone has a good year with the harvest of a hard year, which is better than anything else.

When Liu Muzhi was planning the big and small things for the coming year with good reverence, he didn't know that someone was trying to make him not have next year.

A family rush interrupted his thoughts.

"Zhao Ning, this kid took Xincheng and the others to Jingzhao Mansion to sound the drums? How dare he do this! What is he going to do? Why is this kid again, can he still live in peace for a few days?!" Liu Muzhi was like a tiger with his beard removed, and when he remembered that Zhao Ning had beaten Liu Zhiwu and destroyed the White Clothes Society, he became angry.

When the Liu clan reported the cause and effect, Liu Muzhi let out a sneer from his nostrils and said disdainfully: "It's just two servants, if they die, they will die, relying on this trivial matter, what big thing can he do?"

Having said that, Liu Muzhi did not take it lightly. He had just folded the White Clothes Club, and the day before yesterday he heard that someone was secretly investigating the Xinxiang Township mining disaster in Lantian County, and contacted Zhao Ning to make an abnormal fuss today.

Thinking about it carefully, Liu Mu's heart became more and more uneasy, and he always felt that there was an invisible and incomparably sharp danger quietly approaching.

Could it be that those people in Xinxiang have anything to do with the Zhao family?

If that is the person sent by the Zhao family, then what is the purpose of what Zhao Ning is doing today?

The Zhao family wants to use these cases of the people to ruin the reputation of the Liu family and deal a heavy blow to the Liu family? !

Although the family is a behemoth in the world and its strength is extraordinary, it is not without weaknesses, among them, its reputation and prestige are more than Mount Tai, like a keel. If the reputation is notorious, then it is not that any clan will suffer, but that the entire family will become the target of public criticism and will not be able to gain a foothold!

This is Zhao Xuanji attacking the Liu clan with all his might?!

Impeaching them with the stain of officials and making a big fuss is an inherent method of civilian officials dealing with military generals, and because the Imperial Historical Observatory is a civilian institution, such a strategy is very effective.

And if Jiangmen wants to impeach civil officials, he can only write by himself, even if he has the help of his colleagues, the momentum is small, and once the Zhongshu Province keeps the fold and does not send it, it will sink into the sea and there will be no response.

Liu Muzhi still felt strange, even if the Zhao family wanted to pass the civil case to the disadvantage of the Liu family, not to mention whether the Jingzhao Mansion was good or not, the case was big, and then the three envoys of the Criminal Department, Dali Siqing, and Yushi Dafu, who investigated the case, were all civil officials, why did the Zhao family think that their ideas could be realized?

"Have you ventilated with Jingzhao Yin Pangsheng?" asked Liu Muzhi.

"The Great Elder has already sent someone. It's just that Xincheng Gongzi and others were forcibly taken away by Zhao Ning on the street, and we didn't notice it in time. Zhao Ning's movements were indeed too fast, and it was clearly premeditated, for fear that we would intercept them, so when the Great Elder heard the news and sent people to Jingzhao Mansion, many people had already gathered, and the huge people had also begun to try the case......" The people of the Liu clan told the truth.

Liu Muzhi frowned, "What's the matter with Pang Sheng, he actually started to try the case in court so soon? He didn't think about pressing down the case first and dragging it out?"

"Back to the head of the family, the person who went to Jingzhao Mansion came back and said that the huge man had tried to confuse the public and make the case smaller, but he was unsuccessful. Zhao Ning's words stimulated the anger of the people, and some officials of Jingzhao Mansion also helped, and the huge people couldn't control the situation, so they could only be forced to try the case......" The Liu clan people 1510.

Liu Muzhi slapped the case heavily, his face full of anger, "Rice bucket! How did this Pang Sheng do Jing Zhaoyin, and he couldn't even manage the officials of Jingzhao Mansion well?

If it weren't for the fact that the Pang family was also a family, Liu Muzhi would want to get Pang Sheng out of Jing Zhaoyin's position afterwards!

After slowing down his breath, Liu Muzhi asked again: "What happened to Xinxiang? Did those people catch it?"

"The news should come back today. ”

Liu Muzhi waved his hand, signaled the clansmen to retreat, thought about it and stopped the other party, "Let the second elder also go to Xinxiang Township to prevent accidents." Tell the Great Elder again that Pang Sheng must not be decided in court...... That's it, if there is something wrong, let Liu Xincheng confess first, and then we will find a way to get him in the future, we can't give Zhao Ning an excuse to make a big fuss!"

"Yes. ”

After the clansmen retreated, Liu Muzhi fell into deep thought.

If the Zhao clan really wants to rely on the civil case to attack the Liu clan, then the all-out offensive has already begun, and he must have more and better responses.

Getting up from his seat, Liu Muzhi decided to talk to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Dali Siqing, and Yushi Dafu.

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The Metropolitan Governor's Palace.

As the highest yamen of the military, the Dadu Governor's Office commands all the soldiers and horses of the empire except for the palace guards, and is responsible for training and defense on weekdays, and dispatches troops and commands the overall situation in wartime. In contrast, the responsibilities of the military department are mainly concentrated on logistical support, including ordnance, rations, and troop supplies.

The separation of the army's training and operations from the food and ordnance and the responsibility of the two yamen was also to prevent the authority of the metropolitan governor or the secretary of the military department from being too powerful.

Without the logistical support of the military headquarters, the army would not be able to move, and it would never be able to go out hungry; without the military orders of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the military headquarters would not be able to mobilize the troops, and the garrisons in various localities would not listen to them at all.

It is also the lifeblood of the military, Yamen, from the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty to the first two years ago, the Metropolitan Governor's Office and the Ministry of War have been in the hands of Jiangmen, and their own family affairs are in charge, which is also the basis for the military to maintain its own status.

But since a few years ago, after Xu Minglang overthrew the secretary of the Ministry of War after a long time of layout and preparation, by now, the Ministry of War has become a civilian yamen. The army's money bag is in the hands of the civilian clique, which is fatal to the military's blow and constraint!

In troubled times, whoever has sufficient money and food in his hands will inevitably have a strong army, and in peacetime, whoever holds the lifeblood of the army's money and food will be able to restrain and even give orders to the army! The so-called army is difficult to support alone, and the military has no military department, and it is difficult to sustain the authority of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.

This time, Xu Minglang once again sought to establish the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and in the method of persuading and winning over some generals, there was no money and food.

For example, the upgrading of armor and weapons and other ordnance, and the annual military budget of the garrisons in various localities, the military department can favor one over the other.

Whoever wants to have sufficient or more military spending for the army where his own forces belong has to agree to certain conditions of the military department, and whoever blatantly opposes the governor's office of the five armies, the military department will set up a plan to reduce the food and salary of his garrison.

In the long run, some armies will have enough food and drink, and some armies will be so poor that their pants will be gone, and the status and power of the corresponding generals will naturally stand up and down, and even the family will take off, or the family will fall in the middle.

What is the name of the general's gate when the lifeline is stuck? It is just a dog raised by civilian officials! At that time, the military of the world will really be in charge of civilian officials.

"It is imperative to recapture the military headquarters! And now, overthrowing the Liu clan is the beginning!" Zhao Xuanji made a summary decision to the many generals present after analyzing the above situation.

Zhao Xuanji is the governor of the capital, but the governor's mansion is not the yamen of the Zhao family, and most of the generals have people serving as officials at all levels here. Right now, Zhao Xuanji is presiding over the internal deliberations of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

"To this day, does Jiangmen really have a chance to recapture the military headquarters?" an elderly official of the Shi clan asked uncertainly. If this matter hadn't been very difficult, Shomen wouldn't have been inactive until now.

Zhao Xuanji said: "As long as the door works together, this prince will be seventy or eighty percent sure!"

"Although the Liu family also has children serving in the military department, their official position is not high, even if the Liu family is overthrown, it will not play a big role in retaking the military department, right?" a middle-aged official in the Bianliang Han style asked tentatively.

Zhao Xuanji corrected: "It's very big! Although the Liu family does not have much power in the military department, it is the mainstay of the sect, if the Liu clan falls, the men's momentum will inevitably be frustrated, and Xu Minglang will lose his right-hand man, and it will be much easier for us to seek the military department again!"

When the generals heard this, they all nodded.